Chronic & Communicable Diseases Objectives Discuss & give examples of chronic diseases. Define communicable diseases & explain their significance. Discuss disease transmission. Explain how communicable disease is transmitted by: a. intestinal discharges. b. nose & throat discharges. c. zoonoses (animals) Discuss the disease spread by vectors and their control measures. Environmental Impacts Paradigm: Exposure-Response (EIA : EHIA) Exposure - def: any condition
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Cited: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention‚ Department of Health and Human Services Retrieved from:http://www.niaid.nih.gov/topics/anthrax/Pages/overview.aspx Cowan‚ M. K. (2012). Microbiology a Systems Approach . Mcgraw Hill. P306 BIOMED Central Retrieved From:http://www.biomedcentral
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Pandemics are disease that spread over a country or the world. Typhus is an example of a pandemic. Typhus is a bacterial disease that is spread by lice and fleas. Brill Zinsser is the discoverer of the disease and typhus is also known as “Brill Zinsser Disease”. Two types of most common typhus are endemic and murine. Endemic typhus is usually seen in places with cold temperature‚ endemic typhus are sometimes called “jail fever” or “camp fever” because typhus killed hundreds of thousands of people
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buzzle.com/articles/what-is-environmental-ethics.html task 2 http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/science_and_impacts/impacts/ Industrial revolution A period of major industrialization that took place during the late 1700s and early 1800s. The Industrial Revolution‚ beginning in Great Britain‚ quickly spread throughout the world. This time period saw the mechanization of agriculture and textile manufacturing and a revolution in power‚ and had a massive effect on social‚ cultural and economic
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Infectious Disease in Africa The earth has been evolving for billions of years‚ growing in population as well as advancing technologically for thousands of years. Most places are up to speed with the latest and greatest new technology. Africa‚ however‚ is struggling to get by without any of these luxuries. They are plagued with disease‚ contaminated water‚ and starvation on top of extreme poverty. But‚ if disease is everywhere--why has it hit Africa the hardest? Well‚ without
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world’s deadliest tropical parasitic diseases. It claims more lives than any other communicable disease except tuberculosis. In Africa and other developing countries‚ it also accounts for millions of dollars in medical costs. Malaria‚ however‚ is a curable disease if promptly diagnosed and adequately treated. Malaria is a mosquito-borne disease caused by the parasite plasmodium. In recent years‚ most cases in the U.S. have been in people who have acquired the disease after travelling to tropical and
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Antibiotics are medications used to kill or prevent the spread of disease causing bacteria in the body. There are two types of antibiotics which manage infectious diseases differently: 1. Bactericidal Antibiotics: this is when the antibiotic completely kills off the Bacteria. It does this by damaging or interfering with the bacteria’s cell contents or wall. An example of this type of antibiotic is Penicillin which is in fact the first type of antibiotic to be discovered. 2. Bacteriostatic Antibiotics:
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Body Systems and Diseases HCS/245 Version 5 1 Copyright © 2014 by University of Phoenix. All rights reserved. Body Systems and Diseases HCS/245 Version 5 2 University of Phoenix Material Effects of Disease on the Health Care Industry: Respiratory Health Complete the table below for 2 diseases that you have chosen that affects respiratory health. In each box‚ you are required to list 35 bulleted statements regarding the heading of that box.
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Human Health and Disease What is health? ‘The state of complete physical‚ mental and social well-being’ To sustain a healthy lifestyle person needs: •A balanced and varied diet Take exercise Proper shelter Enough sleep Good hygiene will reduce the likelihood of infection What is disease? Disease is a disorder or malfunction of the mind or body‚ which leads to a departure from good health. Can be a disorder of a specific tissue or organ due to a single cause. E.g. malaria. May
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